The Internet has done wonders for my life in many ways. PERFORMED BY The Guess Who, Junior Walker& The All StarsĪPPEARS ON Wheatfield Soul, What Does It Take To Win Your Love WRITTEN BY Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings Well, I believe in love and I live my life accordingly. Some say they're goin' to a place called Glory and I ain't saying it ain't a fact.īut I've heard that I'm on the road to purgatory and I don't like the sound of that. Some say that they're comin' back in a garden, bunch of carrots and little sweet peas. Some say you rest in the arms of the Saviour if in sinful ways you lack. Some say once you're gone you're gone forever, and some say you're gonna come back.
LYRICSĮverybody's wonderin' what and where they all came from.Įverybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna go when the whole thing's done.īut no one knows for certain and so it's all the same to me. Let the men wrangle about doctrine and who's going to heaven and who to hell she's content to "let the mystery be". The woman with that voice may have gone to church on Sunday and listened to the preacher and shouted "Amen", but in her heart of hearts she kept her own counsel.
And in doing so, she's only echoing those old souls she's channeling, because despite the hellfire-and-brimstone of the Southern preachers, the everyday men and women up in the hollers and in the backwoods were a lot less strict and much more forgiving than the preachers. She talks about where we might or might not go after death, looking at what everybody says, and figuring that nobody really knows she decides to "let the mystery be." This stereotypical Southern Baptist voice utters heresy! But she's done that often in her career, with songs like "The Way I Should" and "He Reached Down". The song "Let the Mystery Be" is classic Iris, dealing with matters of belief in a unique and decidedly unorthodox manner. That archetypal voice has been ringing in my ears for a while now. At one point she was a regular on A Prairie Home Companion she sang harmonies on several songs with Nanci Griffith and Emmylou Harris on Nanci's Other Voices, Other Rooms (and wasn't that a vocal trio to die for!), and has also sung with John Prine and Steve Earle. Whatever the first occasion, I've been listening to Iris DeMent for a long time now. And yet the owner of that voice is still a young woman.
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It's the voice of an old, old soul, full of the sorrows and the joys of women making the best of life with the bare minimum to work with. There is no other voice like Iris's it's as if she were channeling the souls of rural Southern women going right back to when the first Scots-Irish settlers first found their way into the hollers of the Appalachians. I forget where I first heard Iris DeMent, but I remember my reaction to her voice: I stopped whatever it was I was doing and just listened.
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